JIRA Contracts in Wales

Atlassian JIRA
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 32 44
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 -25
Contract jobs citing JIRA 8 14 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.24% 3.39% 2.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.60% 22.58% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 9
10th Percentile £271 £470 £423
25th Percentile £406 £489 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% -2.14% -7.89%
75th Percentile £488 £536 £550
90th Percentile £513 £544 £583
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -

All Development Application Skills
Wales

JIRA falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 43 62 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 12.04% 15.01% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 50 46
10th Percentile £256 £246 £388
25th Percentile £305 £427 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £503 £573
Median % change year-on-year -15.42% -12.23% +0.44%
75th Percentile £488 £542 £625
90th Percentile £518 £556 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £20.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -22.17% -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Wales

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in Wales.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Wales

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Wales over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Wales

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Wales region over the 6 months to 2 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales -4 5 £413 -19.71% 8
Dyfed - 1 £475 -
West Wales - 1 £475 -
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) nginx
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
2 1 (12.50%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) OCI
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) RTP
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Multimedia
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Development Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Business Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Development Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Services Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Development Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Jest
2 1 (12.50%) JWT
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) Puppeteer
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (12.50%) Coaching
4 1 (12.50%) Defect Management
4 1 (12.50%) Epics
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Project Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) ISEB
3 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) SEPA
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) LXC
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) HP ALM
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Sparx